In the year 1760, a Swiss naturalist named Charles Bonnet became concerned when his grandfather Charles Lullin began to experience a parade of “amusing and magical visions.” The eighty-nine-year-old Lullin was being visited by visions of people, birds, carriages, and buildings, all of which were invisible to everyone but him. Apparently these mysterious objects materialized spontaneously among the few bits of the world he was still able to perceive through his cataracts.
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Charles Bonnet syndrome—elderly people and visual hallucinations
Anu Jacob, research fellow1, Sanjeev Prasad2, Mike Boggild, consultant neurologist3, Sanjeev Chandratre, consultant4
1 Department of Neurosciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L9 7LJ, 2 Care of the Elderly, Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax HX3 0PW, 3 Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool L9 7LJ, 4 Care of the Elderly, Calderdale [...]
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The study showed that those who drank more than 30 grams of alcohol per day (less than two pints of strong lager) raised their cancer risk by about 25 percent.According to Dr. Walker, Cancer Research UK’s director of cancer information, “While there is increasing evidence that over indulging in alcohol can increase the risk of some cancers, research also shows that by far the biggest risk for life threatening diseases is the combination of smoking together with drinking alcohol.”BBC News July 30, 2007International Journal of Cancer July 19, 2007Dr…. It can also cause serious disruption to your delicate hormone balance.In addition to that, excessive drinking– just like smoking — may also be the cause of several other cancers, including:cancer of the mouthlarynxesophaguslivercolonbreastpancreas, and lungsA previous study on alcohol consumption and breast cancer, found that postmenopausal women who drink more than a half a glass of alcohol per day, and have low intakes of the B vitamin folate, are 60% more likely to develop breast cancer than those who do not drink alcohol and have the highest intake of folate.
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Posted in General, Health Conditions on Jul 23rd, 2007
Dr. Ladson Hinton, lead author and associate professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Davis, said the findings had significant implications for men aged 65 and older, who were almost eight times as likely to commit suicide than women; that translates to 31.8 per 100,000 compared with 4.1 per 100,000…. They also examined gender differences, referral rates and histories of depression treatment, finding that older men were less likely than women to endorse depression symptoms such as feeling depressed or down (39 percent versus 47 percent of women), report having lost interest or pleasure in things they usually enjoy (37 percent versus 42 percent of women), or report fatigue (62 percent versus 67 percent of women).
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Posted in Health Conditions on Jul 23rd, 2007
CBS 2 Medical Editor Mary Ann Childers reports experts say that’s because they don’t realize they are depressed, they just know they feel tired all the time, can’t sleep, are irritable or are losing interest in things…. “Men have been socialized in our culture to be stoic, and not talk about those things,” said therapist Robert Farra, Ph.D.Farra, who’s treated male patients from ages 16 to 90, says the consequences of depression can be deadly and may be a major reason that more than four times as many men as wome
